LAMMA 2018 could be described as a disaster for exhibitors, however every cloud has a silver lining, so the saying goes, and your silver lining is that this gives you the ideal opportunity to contact every existing or potential customer who you didn’t see on the first day. This is action that you need to take today if you want success Put together a...

“I am the Referee and Not your Coach!” Romain Poile refereeing 6 Nations England v Italy 26/2/17 A Business Coach does not have the luxury of saying “I am your coach and not a referee” when working with clients in a period of change, especially in family owned business where the younger management team want to move forward and the...

In my May blog post this year I talked about how perseverance can massively increase your conversion rates from sales leads to actual sales. So in order to persevere you have to start somewhere, and that usually is when a lead is generated, whether by you or your company’s marketing activities. if you have generated the lead then more than likely you...

August has already seen the start of the 2016 Olympic games and success has started with our 1st swimming medals with a Gold & world record from Adam Peaty plus a silver from Jazz Carlin following successes in sport during June and July for the UK in the shape of Andy Murray winning Wimbledon and Chris Froome winning the Tour de France for the 3rd...

Negative Selling has been a key tactic in REMAINS Strategy of Project FEAR during the EU Referendum campaign this year. Look where it has got them – nowhere! Fear is a very powerful emotion and can can be used as a powerful tactical tool in your sales arsenal however, it should only be used, if at all, to put emphasis on a point when closing your...

Salespeople are rightly judged by the number and value of sales that they gain; to achieve this they must have a continuous supply of leads to feed into the sales pipeline for these leads to become prospects and then customers. One of the challenges in this process is to to actually talk with the buyer, and usually the first verbal contact is by phone and...